Re: [patch] cygport : update to python 3.9

[Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

On 03.07.2022 14:22, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 29/05/2022 16:54, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>
>>> Following is a sort of RFC, so let me know your opinion.
>>>
>>> Currently we have two type of Python packages
>>>
>>> 1) Pure python that exists at max as 2.7 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 plus 2 and 3
>>>
>>>     in that case 2/2.7 3/3.6 are EOL;
>>>     I stopped last year to update the 2.7 and I am thinking to do the
>>>     same for 3.6 now.
>>>
>>>     I do not see the need to continue to update 3.7, it never become
>>>     default as we jumped from 3.6 to 3.8 and it is not more
>>>     active upstream:
>>>     https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/#lifespan
>>>
>>>     We can update the 3.8 and 3.9 while preparing/testing for 3.10
>>>
>>>     source package will continue to use the "python-*" form, while
>>>     "python3-*" should not be used.
>>
>> I disagree about the second half of that sentence.
>>
>>  From a package management point of view:
>>
>> * being able to script 'install python3, python3-foo' and get the foo 
>> for the default python is useful
>>
>> * having the setup remember that python3-foo was installed (causing 
>> python39-foo to be installed), means when the default python is 
>> updated from python39 to python3nn, setup will also install 
>> python3nn-foo, so local scripts with a python3 shebang which 'import 
>> foo' continue to work.
>>
>> I've posted a cygport patch which adjusts cygport to generate these 
>> python3-foo virtual packages. What do you think about that?
> 
> I've released a cygport 0.35.2 with that patch [1] applied.
> 
> Please let me know if it causes you problems.
> 
> (It also fixes an issue where the presence of a python3 shebang wasn't 
> correctly detected as a dependency on the python3 package due to python3 
> being a symlink now)
> 
> [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2022-May/042051.html
> 

Thanks Jon

appreciated.

I will start to refresh python packages,
as soon I finish the current run to update some of the other stuff
that I left behind in the first half of the year.

Regards
Marco